PeaZip might be a better FOSS alternative. However, for people who need additional features that WinRAR offers, 7-Zip can't completely fulfill their needs. I also mostly use 7-Zip for extraction and I wish it stays simple and efficient as it is now.

If 7-Zip offers everything you need, that's great. For example, the option 'Put each file to separate archive' can be useful when you want to compress many directories into different archives.Ĭertainly you can use another program for recovery records, and people familiar with scripting can handle the 'Put each file to separate archive' scenerio without much difficulty, but some people prefer these features to be available in an integrated GUI, and some of them are willing to pay for it. WinRAR does offer certain features that 7-Zip doesn't, such as integrated recovery records and higher flexibility in creating archives. (I didn't know Bandizip allows codepage selection when I made that comment, for that use case you may use Bandizip if you want something free.) Recently I made a comment about why some users might prefer WinRAR to 7-Zip.

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